Defending the honor of religious minorities in the Islamic and western law

Abstract

The honor of religious minorities is among the challenging subjects that have today created some challenges between the governments as well as the governments and the religious minorities. In general, governments consider defending religious minorities to be a good strategy for unity, peace, and reconciliation. Regarding the challenging nature of the subject and its importance, the author has aimed to investigate the “defending of the honor of religious minorities in the Islamic and Western law” with a descriptive-analytical approach using the library method. The results indicate that honor of religious minorities is the same as protecting the inherent dignity of religious minorities. The theory of dignity and the principle of inequality and indiscrimination in Islamic and western laws emphasize the necessity of protecting the honor of religious minorities. In this regard, defending the honor of religious minorities is a necessity in the current era and the justice-based legal theory is one of its most important foundations. Regarding the necessities and foundations of defending the honor of religious minorities, Islamic and Western laws have adopted some strategies such as the right to protection and recognition of the existence and identity of religious minorities.